Philadelphia: An Office profile;

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OFFICE PROFILE Phikdelphia
In Philadelphia three hundred years
of history are as real as the old nar­row
streets in the Society Hill sec­tion
with ruts worn in the cobblestones
by the horse-drawn carriages and
wagons of long ago, as real as the
Liberty Bell, Independence Hall or
nearby Valley Forge. On a mild autumn
morning, as traffic builds on the pikes,
expressways and highways leading into
the city, oars dip and sweep, occasion­ally
catching the sun, as sculls glide
through the morning mist on the
Schuylkill River.
At Penn's Landing on the Delaware
River the wooden-hulled, square-rigged
Gazela Primeiro, built in Portugal in 1883
as a fishing boat and still virtually as
sound as the day she was launched,
dreams under a warm sun of voyages
lasting up to six months on the Grand
Banks off Newfoundland. Berthed
nearby, aging veterans for children of a
newer age to stare and wonder at, are
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